You want to think about how much attention and primacy we should give to an author's statements about what her work mean--as readers.

对于作者对自己作品的阐述和说明,我们怎么注意,怎么给予优先度也不为过。

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And also we're reading Herodotus's work itself and talking about that.

我们还读希罗多德自己的作品，并且探讨它们。

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So what Johnson is saying is: well, it's all very well to consider a textual field, the workmanship, but at the same time we want to remind ourselves of our worth.

所以约翰逊的意思就是：,考虑话本场和作品是很好的，但同时我们还应该提醒自己注意到自己的价值。

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Now I was going to put that text up on the board and, to be honest with you, I forgot to do that, so I'm going to have to see if I can remember this text: We're going to focus now on two sections of this work: the "Confutatis" And the "Lacrimosa dies illa."

现在我将要把歌词写在黑板上,老实跟你们说,我刚才忘了这么做,所以我得看看自己是否还记得歌词,我们将专注于这部作品的两个部分,《羞惭无地》和《落泪之日》

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